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Title
Five-fingered discount
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
1947
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes.; Title supplied by cataloger.
Favorite trick of the market shoplifter? Mrs. Mary Billingsley of the Herald-Express circulation department, posing as a light-fingered housewife, is paying for her legitimate purchase, keeping a bag stuffed with stolen goods out of sight of the checker. Photograph dated October 13, 1947.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;23 x 18 cm. on sheet 26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00099490
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 51
CARL0005109883
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30318
Subject
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express (Firm)
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express (Firm)--Employees
Shoplifting--California--Los Angeles
Grocery shopping--California--Los Angeles
Supermarkets--California--Los Angeles
Newspaper employees--California--Los Angeles
Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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